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Invitation

A Message from the ACTA President

On behalf of the Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA), I would like to thank our conference delegates from previous years for their continuing support and participation and to welcome new delegates to our second biennial international TESOL conference. Our 2010 conference is being hosted by the Queensland Association for TESOL (QATESOL) at the Holiday Inn in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, one of Australia’s premier tourist destinations.

The conference program includes an outstanding line-up of plenary, featured and invited speakers, workshop presentations and colloquia, and will address a wide range of pertinent and topical issues in ESL and EFL education. Along with the fresh ideas and insights provided in these conference sessions, you will have an opportunity to meet up with other educators and researchers from Australia and around the world.

I hope to see you in Surfers this July!

With best wishes,
Robert Jackson
ACTA President

Conference Theme

The focus of this conference is the need for TESOL practitioners to rethink and reconfigure the way we view and practice our profession in light of rapid global change and new challenges; to think outside the square and to share ideas and practices that are contributing to such thinking.

There will be 4 strands at the conference:

• Pedagogy (including classroom practice, teacher education)
• Assessment and Evaluation
• Learners and Learning (including Second Language Acquisition, identity, literacy
  development, culture etc)
• Curriculum & Policy.

Participants will be from early childhood, primary, secondary, ELICOS, TEFL, adult migrant and tertiary sectors, including teachers/scholars who work with indigenous language learners at all levels.

The keynote speakers are international leaders in the field, and conference participants will comprise TESOL educators and researchers from around the globe.

Papers are welcomed from teachers and scholars within the TESOL field as well as from other disciplines that have direct impact on the teaching & learning of English as a second language or dialect (e.g mainstream literacy, numeracy, culture studies, psychology, etc).

Who Should Attend

• Teachers
• Pre Service Teachers
• Teacher Educators
• Program managers
• Researchers
• Curriculum leaders
• Principals
• Educators working with students of:
  • English as a Second or Additional Language (ESL, EAL)
• English as an Additional Dialect (EAD)
• English as a Foreign Language (EFL)
• Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds (CALD)

The Destination

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WHERE & WHEN

The Australian Council of TESOL Associations International TESOL Conference will be held at Holiday Inn on the Gold Coast from 7th - 10th July 2010.   SPONSORSHIP     Download the Sponsorship Prospectus Here

COMMITTEE

Chair:  Laraine Goldman. Head of Special Education Services for English as a Second Language at Sunnybank State High.   Dr Donna Tangen.  Queensland University of Technology (QUT)   Jennifer Alford. Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology   Mary-Anne Fleming is an Education Officer, Curriculum – English as Second Language, at Brisbane Catholic Education, Brisbane, Australia.   More information here

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